9 thoughts on “More tips in gardening

    • Now, have you peed behind a horse trailer like another commentator has suggested? Or even entered such a horse trailer when political promises where laying about?

        • You had biology courses, and should have had a veterinary A&P. I did. Horse is Equus ferus caballus and is of the taxonomic family Equidae…. Has that provided definition?

          • Living deep in cattle country, I’m very careful about how and who I admit to that……horses are good eatin’.
            Many, many moons ago, there used to be a butcher shop in SE Portland that sold it.

            • For many years my Step Mother’s Cousin had a slaughterhouse in North Portland on Columbia Blvd.
              They actually converted the plant to slaughter horses and were sending the meat to Europe.
              I worked there very briefly while they were converting it over.
              There was a Rendering plant right next door. That thing would gag ya from two miles away in the Summer when the wind was right.
              They have both long since closed down.

  1. Actually, I’ve found potatoes, beans, beets, carrots (all root crops really), and cabbage do quite well together, and I ADD French Marigolds all around them to keep the voles, rabbits (and other rodents) and nematodes (nasty root suckers) away. Even deer don’t like marigolds so if they are not hungry, they sniff and move onward.

    Nice thing about French Marigolds is they self-seed all summer and are easy to save seeds from for next spring.

    Pretty good survival garden right there. Always remember to move the nightshades (potatoes-tomatoes-peppers) every year to a new area as they get viruses otherwise. That don’t mean plant peppers where you had potatoes last year, OK?

    If you get blight on your nightshades don’t compost those plants, BURN THEM after harvest. And Don’t Plant them there for at least 2 years so the virus can die off. Actually, I don’t compost any of my nightshades, I toss well into the woods or burn them.

  2. Phil, you let that Cederq loose off the leash again? How come he didn’t mention anything about where you should plant America’s most famous vegetable, the Biden?

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